March 7, 2008

    It’s called the NIMBY syndrome: Not In My Back Yard. The syndrome seems to particularly affect those who flee…

    In my home state of Louisiana, everybody has a favorite Cajun joke. Mine is about the Cajun who was…

    Perhaps I spoke too soon. Last summer I wrote an essay stating environmental activists in Sonoma County had not…

    On Sunday, April 6, the Press Democrat headlined "Workers’ Comp Insurance Program in Crisis." The article quotes small business…

    Health care consumers across the state are bracing for another round of double-digit health insurance premium increases. Employers large…

    California’s private forestlands have some of the most extensive legal protection in the world, with multiple layers of federal,…

    The public assistance programs in America can be likened to a lake at the bottom of a waterfall. Into…

    Chances are, the officials who write regulations for the various industries in our state don’t intend to drive businesses…

    Days after the State of California paid $275 million for the largest open space purchase in the history of…

    Before the energy crisis, before the workers’ comp crisis, before the state budget crisis, the California housing crisis began,…